Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Multimodal interference-based imaging of nanoscale structure and macromolecular motion uncovers UV induced cellular paroxysm

  • Scott Gladstein,
  • Luay M. Almassalha,
  • Lusik Cherkezyan,
  • John E. Chandler,
  • Adam Eshein,
  • Aya Eid,
  • Di Zhang,
  • Wenli Wu,
  • Greta M. Bauer,
  • Andrew D. Stephens,
  • Simona Morochnik,
  • Hariharan Subramanian,
  • John F. Marko,
  • Guillermo A. Ameer,
  • Igal Szleifer,
  • Vadim Backman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09717-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Methods to track molecular motion in eukaryotic cells mostly rely on fluorescent labels, transfection or photobleaching. Here the authors use multimodal partial wave spectroscopy to perform label-free live cell measurements of nanoscale structure and macromolecular motion with millisecond temporal resolution.